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Fire were on course for a comfortable victory after reaching 109-3 in their chase of 127, with opener Georgia Voll in good nick and unbeaten on a half-century.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Jofra Archer bowled with fire to have Tom Latham nick off and Josh Tongue removed Devon Conway with his first ball.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

The country stored up 1.26 billion barrels of oil in the nick of time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

It built up those reserves just in the nick of time.

From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026

"Can I borrow yours, Ralph, to make a nick in the hilt?"

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

Scott Boland bowled 74 deliveries to Root in the remaining three Tests of that series, conceded 39 runs and dismissed Root four times by consistently probing at that fuller length and finding nicks.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2025

Living “in the heart of elephant country” from 1966-70, Mr. Douglas-Hamilton learned to tell hundreds of elephants apart, largely through the shape of their ears or tears and nicks in them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

Such are the nicks and acceptances of the trade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2023

Its wood is worn with 19 years of scratches and nicks, but its bold black type persists:

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2023

And almost all the Siriono had unusual nicks in their earlobes, the traits I had noticed on the two men accompanying us.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Imagine it like this: It is late in the evening of April 15, 1865, and Abraham Lincoln has survived an assassination attempt, the bullet aimed by John Wilkes Booth having merely nicked his now-bandaged scalp.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

He muscled a brutal straight six over long-on off while hitting spinner Mohammad Nawaz for 17 in the sixth, before nudging singles after Banton nicked off to Usman Tariq.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026

To test the idea further, the researchers created "nicked" DNA, strands that were interrupted at specific points.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 9, 2026

Khawaja had five when he nicked a flaying drive off Josh Tongue to second slip, where Brook shelled a tough chance but one he would expect to take.

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025

The knuckles of my right hand jammed against something I hadn’t remembered was there: a jagged piece of bright-purple fluorite that I’d nicked from the Earth Science room during mineral lab.

From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth

The Cherries won the reverse fixture in October thanks to a late comeback, and I can see them nicking this one too.

From BBC ● May 7, 2026

And, of course, we’ve been in a reciprocal comedy arrangement with Britain — or at least we have been nicking their ideas for shows — for years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026

The 28-year-old, who has played more of his rugby at open-side flanker, made 17 carries and 78 metres, while also finishing joint top of the tackle stats with Guy Pepper and nicking a turnover.

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026

Instead this is the type of game where they will go and grind out a 'one-niller', by nicking a set-piece goal.

From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2026

The moment he was inside, Harry burst out, “He was nicking Sirius’s stuff!”

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling